Ask yourself this, if a trader has spent years of getting good before trading and usually alone, then years of getting good trading(there is a difference) and usually alone, whatever the fee they can charge should be a very small amount as to what they make in a day, and mostly good traders don't want the aggravation of working with people for fears and you get where you work alone, working with people can be huge pain in the arse. I recently stopped taking students to mentor cause one of them hired a programmer which violates the "sharing" agreement we had. I don't mind at all of those who work and program on their own but do mind when people start telling others as the others can see how good something is and then sell it, then I have more people to compete against. I learned several years ago, by charging people you are committed to them length of time, and 95% of their problems are within their 2 ears, plus you have to often rewrite systems to be able for them to discover within themselves how what I showed them to work for themselves. I have learned you CANNOT teach people how to trade, you can guide them and set it up they discover elements they need to know, but people who think it is just learning a system, in for huge fall cause their are teachers who know price action and there are system developers who don't know price action well. You have to know what is going on besides setting up for signals, there is 100% going on to left of now that you can see and if chart is SCREAMING at you not to take a trade, if you not learned this cause you learned how to trade a system, you most likely have losses.
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They not doing lately well, perhaps they do well in trending markets or chop markets, one reason why it best to have achievable goals and reduce contract size is they seem to do well at some point then lose that amount, don't know as I don't know if they scale out or average down. I think it is better to scale down like at minus $50 as then risking $50 less and able to make $50 more. But again, if so much time has passed and not become profitable, have to target enough to cover fees most of the time and end the trade.
There is so much information on earlier posts from before 2005, start there and go backwards, back then traders were more free with information. Even with a good mentor, you are going to have to bust your rump learning and when you have a good question to ask the forum, ask but make sure you have tried your best to learn on your own.
Good luck and welcome aboard.
, turned up this book, which, having glanced thru is very good for any person seriously considering daytrading US stocks.